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by chefandy 708 days ago
Cross-platform applications that rely on binary libraries have always been the beginning of my Python dependency misery. It usually works fine, but when it doesn't, it's miserable.
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I get that, but isn’t that a problem with dependency management itself and not the tools?
Same for me. Does rye help? Or what's your silver bullet?
I haven't encountered any silver ammunition for that particular gun. I haven't worked on a big python project in a while, so I'm not sure if rye would do the trick.
PyInstaller + bundling the dlls and binaries works well for me
One annoying problem that I encountered with that approach was different binaries having different version conflicts on different platforms. Not unsolvable, but definitely unsolvable without a whole lot of irritation, and a huge PITA to maintain. It definitely makes it possible though, which is a whole lot better than nothing.